Agricultural Burning is defined in this rule as any open outdoor fire used in agricultural operations necessary
for the growing of crops or raising of fowl or animals, or in Forest Management Burning, Range Improvement Burning,
or the improvement of land for wildlife and game habitat, or disease or pest prevention. (Section 39011)

Agricultural Burning is also defined in this rule as any open outdoor fire used in the operation or maintenance
of a system for the delivery of water for purposes specified in subdivision A.

Permissive-Burn or No Burn Days.

A notice as to whether the following day is a permissive-burn day, or no-burn day, or whether the decision
will be announced the following day, shall be provided by the ARB board by 3:00 p.m. daily for each of the air
basins. If thedecision is made the following day it shall be announced by 7:45 a.m.. Such notices shall be based
on the Meteorological Criteria for Regulating Agricultural Burning, Article 3, Sections 80180 through 80320 of
these Agricultural Burning Guidelines.

Agricultural burning is prohibited on no-burn days, except as specified in Section 80102, Section 80120, subdivisions
(d) and (e), and as may be permitted by a provision in an implementation plan adopted pursuant to Section 89150
(c) (5).

Upon request from a permittee through a designated agency, seven days in advance of a specific range improvement
burn, forest management burn, or wildland vegetation management burn, at any elevation below 6,000 ft. (msl), a
permissive-burn or no-burn notice will be issued by the state board up to 48 hours prior to the date schedule for
the burn. Without further request, a daily notice will continue to be issued until a permissive-burn notice is
issued.

Notwithstanding subdivision (c) of Section 80110, the ARB board may cancel permissive-burn notices that have
been issued more than 24 hours in advance if the cancellation is necessary to maintain suitable air quality.

A permissive-burn or no-burn advisory outlook will be available up to 72 hours in advance of burns specified
in subdivision (c) of Section 80110.

306.1 Agricultural Burning Requirement.

Agricultural burning is allowed by complying with the following Rules:

302 Burning Permit Requirement

303 Burn Days

304 Burning Management

305 Minimum Drying Time

Burning conducted by a Public Agency or through a cooperative agreement or contract involving a public agency,
shall comply with Rule 307, instead of this Rule.

No burning shall be conducted for the improvement of land for wildlife or game wildlife or game habitat until
the person who desires to conduct the burning files with the APCO a written statement from the Department of Fish
and Game that certifies that the burning is desirable and proper. If the Department of Fish and Game wishes to
conduct the burn itself, it shall, on its own behalf, issue and file the statement (Section 41861).

The burning of empty sacks or containers which contain pesticides or other toxic substances is exempt from
306.1, provided that the sacks or containers are within the definition of Agricultural Waste - Rule 300 (B).

Open burning of agricultural waste above 3,000 feet and agricultural burning above 6,000 feet shall be exempt
from Sections A through C of this rule.